South Africa
Banks must provide hand sanitiser for 30 000 ATMs─── 05:34 Wed, 23 Jun 2021
It is now mandatory for local banks to make hand sanitisers available at all 30 000 automated teller machines in South Africa.
This new stipulation was Gazetted on June 17 as part of the changes made to the Disaster Management Act regulations introduced by Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
The new regulation aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 comes despite the banking industry pointing out that providing sanitisers at ATMs is far easier said than done.
The Banking Association of SA notes that as 70% of the country’s 30 000 ATMs are situated in remote locations and on premises that are not owned by banks, the banks do not have direct control over these machines.
Moneyweb
